Why are publishers blocking AI crawlers, and should your business do the same?
Who blocks AI bots in 2026 (Reuters Institute, BuzzStream and Elmo data), the licensing deals and their reported amounts, what blocking did to traffic and AI citations, pay-per-crawl, TollBit and RSL, where NYT v. OpenAI and the other lawsuits stand, and a rule by business type with the exact robots.txt and Cloudflare settings.
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